Back stay fastening fob caeeiage tops



(No Model.)

H. E. HORN.

BACK STAY FASTENING FOR CARRIAGE TOPS. No. 368,473. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY EDWVARD HORN, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

BACK-STAY FASTENlNG FOR CARRIAGE-TOPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,473, dated August 16, 1887.

Application filed February 16, 1887. Serial No. 227,786. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY EDWARD HORN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Device for Fastening the BacleStays of Carriage-Tops, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters refer to corresponding parts.

My device consists of a plate set within the back part of the carriage-seat on each side and fastened by means of screws, said plate being provided with a number of lugs on the inner side, these lugs being provided with threaded openings for the reception of screwbuttons, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a side eleva tion of the device, showing the carriage-back in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional end view taken on the line as 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an end view of the carriage back and stay, the fastening-plate and the threaded portion of the screwbutton being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 5 shows the screw-button. Fig. 6 is an enlarged rear view of the carriage back and stay, showing the manner of fastening the stay with the screw-buttons.

The ordinary method of fastening the backstays of carriagetops is by means of nails driven through the stays into the wooden portion of the back of the carriageseat. This is done after the carriage is painted and varnished, and consequently the varnished surface is often checked in driving the nails. Furthermore, whenever a carriage is taken apart for shipment, or for any other purpose, the nails fastening the stays must be removed. It will be readily observed that after these stays have been taken off and refastened a few times the back of the carriage-seat where the nails have been driven will be so badly cut up or pen forated with nail-holes that it will not hold a nail securely.

The object of my device is to obviate the necessity of nailing the stays, thereby avoiding the difficulties resulting therefrom, and which I have just mentioned. This object I accomplish in the manner shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described.

A is a plate constructed of metal or any suitable material, and provided with lugs A, molded on its inner surface.

Plate A is provided with threaded openings A which extend through lugs A, as shown in Fig. 3, and by dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 4.

Plate A is set within the wooden back of the carriageseat, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, and fastened by means of screws inserted in the openings A, Fig. 1.

B B, &c., are screw-buttons, made of sufficient length to extend through stay 0, plate A, and lugs A, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4..

The object of lugs A is to hold screw-buttons B securely in place by giving them a threaded opening, A", of considerable length.

In defining my invention with greater clearness, I would state that I am aware that it is not new to form the strap of a hinge with screw-holes having a re-enforcement of metal or a boss around the same; and I do not claim, broadly, a plate having such re-en forced holes.

In my invention it will be seen that the plate A has independent screw-holes, which receive screws that attach it to the carriage, while the internally'tlneaded lugs -or bosses A are socketed to receive the buttons B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. As a new article of manufacture, the plate A, having one set of screw-holes for attaching it to the carriage, and having also hol- 8 low internaIly-screwthreaded lugs or bosses A, for receiving the screw-threaded shanks of the buttons, as shown and described.

2. A device for fastening the back-stays of carriage-tops, consisting of plate A, provided with lugs A, and threaded openings A in combination with screw-buttons B, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. A device for fastening the backstays of 5 carriagetops, consisting of plate A, provided with lugs A, and threaded openings A, said plate being suitably attached to the back portion of the carriage-seat, in combination with screw-buttons B, or their equivalent, substanloo tially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY ED\VARD HORN.

In presence of F. H. J OHNSON, L. M. SLnn'rH. 

